Isabella Tree @ 5x15 - How rewilding can save the environment

Isabella Tree writes for publications such as National Geographic, Granta, The Sunday Times and The Observer. Her articles have been selected for The Best American Travel Writing and Reader's Digest Today's Best Non-Fiction, and she was Overall Winner of the Travelex Travel Writer Awards.
She published her first book The Bird Man - a Biography of John Gould when she was 25.
Her latest book Wilding - the Return of Nature to an English Farm charts the story of the pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex where she lives with her husband Charlie Burrell.
Recorded at The Tabernacle in London in May 2018.
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[@liljoe8952]

Save the soil!!! Great video, everything you said pertains to farmers around the U.S.. As a ranchhand in texas on a cattle farm, I get to see these outdated practices first hand. Farmers here farm like strip mining. It hurts my heart. I think back to my biology classes when we learned basic food webs, and cascading effects. It’s hard for me to understand how ranchers and farmers here don’t give a second thought to the life beneath their feet, all for the sake of a profit. I have been implementing sustainable practices and letting my grandparents 250 acre farm go wild. I have a plenty more to learn, however with great speakers such as yourself and sustainable agriculture advocates here in the us. I hope to make our small farm sustainable, wild, and profitable. Hopefully this will invoke change with surrounding farmers. Thank you for this video!!!!

[@JemBowdenWatercolour]

The most wonderful and inspiring thing I've discovered for as long as I can recall. Everyone should know about this! Well done to all at Knepp. You give us hope about saving and restoring our wildlife and landscape. Thank you!!

[@LearnPermaculture]

How is it that this has had so few views? Isabella's book 'Wilding' is a must read - an inspirational story of hope for the future.

[@fredericksemple6366]

Couldn't agree more.

[@babylonmol]

Just reading her book now. Fascinating!

[@velvetindigonight]

My take is that people never think to 'google' anything on You Tube. You Tube is an amazing resource and is acknowledged as part of the 'intellectual drak web' that is a more informed and thoughtprovoking media than what is available via tv, radio and the papers. I follow many subjects and jornalists and am always shocked by how few views there are too. Hopefully, this will change.

[@rhythmjoe1]

Isabella's methods seem like common sense rather than cutting edge science What an uplifting plan for the future. My spirit soars!. It has taken a very long time since the first book on the dangers of intensive farming called "the silent Spring" (if it was the first) in the 1960s for a new way of farming to be tried. Anne Fitzgerald's article in the Irish Independent's farming supplement was where I heard about this revolution. I cant wait to read the book!

[@fredericksemple6366]

Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" was indeed an eye-opener in the late 60s.

[@hollymathie8775]

Isabella Tree on radio 4 desert Island Discs-Everyone should listen to this!! Truly courageous and inspirational. Yes I agree This gives us hope. Mother definitely nature knows best. Please keep doing what you are doing A hundred thousand thank yous

[@reuseruth3]

She is inspirational

[@Alex-gu5ei]

Such a long time coming since i studied environmental science. Finally its here, its real, true rewilding. Thank you

[@jamesmurphy4543]

Wonderful presentation,and your book is an inspiration.Proving its much better to light a penny candle than curse the darkness well done to all who contributed to bring this project to fruition. As a farmer we have to start looking deeper than our standard operating procedures to secure a viable future for our fragile little planet.

[@AkashaLonsdale-Deighton]

Completely inspiring. Thank you!

[@Nitka022]

so well done! Amazing transformation and now conservation..:-)...

[@tadblackington1676]

Spot on. So much can be achieved by just relaxing our grip a bit whether we are speaking of a Knepp estate or a postage stamp lawn.

[@mauriziobiancarelli8222]

Amazing, inspiring and very well done, compliments on you

[@andrewforrest108]

Such a timely message of realistic hope, and truly inspirational. Just what the world needs right NOW! Thank you for posting.

[@chrisbaldwin7058]

Visionary

[@gabrielleheard6366]

So good thank you

[@peterbrenton410]

fascinating and inspirational .I hope there will be enough governmental support to expand this across as much of the country as possible- time is running out !. At present I fear the present government is perhaps not the best to rely on to help.

[@sandyblack9782]

Inspirational.

[@fiatwoody]

I think it is fantastic what you are doing and I thank you for doing it. It would be nice to see mayflies in abundance and Moths buzzing around the porch light, or look up at night and see Bats whizzing around. if more people where able to follow your lead, there could be hope for us. Thank you again.

Fantastic talk!

[@colleen9369]

Has the last summer heat and lack of rain changing " wildings"?

[@TheSuperappelflap]

You got mud and intensive agriculture, so you call in the Dutch guy. Makes sense to me.

[@gruffygrazer203]

It's worth noting that Chalk Downland habitat harbours some of the greatest biodiversity found in the world, often described as European rainforest. Up to 40 species of plant in a single square metre, which cascade benefits to other fauna. The UK itself has around 50% of the worlds Chalk Grasslands. Since the continuous settlement of humans in the UK, the vast swathes of Chalk Grasslands present for most of this time, were created and maintained as a man-made, waste product of people farming the land extensively with sheep. Sheep were introduced to the UK by humans and their grazing behaviours, as an alpine grazing animal, created an artificial alpine environment for species rich Chalk Downland.

[@martinburgesshill]

Inspiring and visionary on one hand, but Isabella is in a privileged position as successful author and married to Charles Burrell 10th Baronet and owner of the 3500 acre Knepp Estate. It will be a very hard task convincing poor tenant farmers and their land owners to try this method

[@tadblackington1676]

Check out Rebecca Hosking and Village Farm of south Devon to get an idea how this sort of approach could work on a small tenant farm.

[@velvetindigonight]

Also check out this talk that Sir Charles Burrell gave to the Oxford Farming Conference in January of this year. About 16.28 mins is where he covers the money and profit. Way above farmings average. I think they make a good arguement for how to farm on substandard soils. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXy4fZuCjMySeM0

[@MildaGoesWild]

Rewilding is not a form of farming!

[@TheSuperappelflap]

Given the choice between making a loss on intensive agriculture, or making a profit on less intensive agriculture, why not? The yields will be lower but it saves a lot of money, not having to pay for GMO seeds, herbicide, pesticide, fungicide, fertilizer, irrigation, machinery. It also saves a lot of time and effort on the part of the farmer. The only company making money on the current system is Monsanto. Screw 'em.

[@louisabendall108]

Great idea but I notice you edited out the bit about sacking ten farmworkers how many jobs have you created all very well for you and all the urban rewilders but what about jobs for people who live and work in the country or are. we expendable

[@oscarcorob3997]

Hi

[@monk0-v5h]

any other uconn people doing this wanna give me the answers idrc about this vid

[@monk0-v5h]

this is a joke please do not expel me

[@louisabendall108]

Very patronising farmworkers are not manual labourer s they drive machinery worth tens. Of thousands most of it computerised they don't need re-education or handouts just decent jobs I think rewilding i juston poor land is a great idea I plant trees for a living but I don't trust big farmers I've worked on the land all my life and they look after number one they've been paid to destroy the country side now they want praise for job rewilding I just think job creation should be an important part of these schemes and as the old saying goes people with full bellies think they don't need farming